Crowds gather to watch the Fourth of July fireworks show last year at Kailua Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Whenever July 4 lands on a Monday, travel surges as Americans take advantage of the long weekend. And you might assume the extra demand for gasoline would send pump

Crowds gather to watch the Fourth of July fireworks show last year at Kailua Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Whenever July 4 lands on a Monday, travel surges as Americans take advantage of the long weekend. And you might assume the extra demand for gasoline would send pump

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A Planned Parenthood clinic in Florida. The organization filed the lawsuits that led to injuctions in Florida and Indiana. Federal judges have blocked new restrictions on access to abortions in Florida and Indiana just hours before laws in those states were set to take effect. This follows Monday’s U.S. Supreme

Adnan Syed leaves the Baltimore City Circuit Courthouse in Baltimore on Feb. 5. He’s now been granted a new trial. Months after he was granted a new hearing because of new evidence, Adnan Syed, whose 2000 murder conviction was a key focus of the hit podcast Serial, has been granted

The Solar Impulse 2, piloted by Bertrand Piccard, takes off from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Monday, starting a four-day journey to Southern Spain. A solar-powered airplane took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport early Monday, in a bid to have the Solar

Young people from Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, Fla., visit a makeshift memorial at the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts on Tuesday in Orlando. The attack on a largely Latino crowd at a gay nightclub in Orlando by a Muslim American mass shooter has meant different things to different

Hillary Clinton addresses her supporters at a rally Tuesday in Brooklyn, N.Y., after clinching her status as presumptive Democratic nominee. Hillary Clinton made history, and took California in the process. Bernie Sanders notched two state primary victories and — despite Clinton’s status as presumptive nominee — said he would remain

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch listens at a press conference on June 22 in Washington, D.C. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she “fully expects” to endorse the recommendations of career prosecutors and FBI agents investigating the security of Hillary Clinton’s email server, but stopped short of recusing herself from the

Markets

President Obama speaks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Concerns about a possible “Brexit” were floating in the air as British investors met with state economic teams at the two-day summit. If you’re on the economic development team for your state, you are happy — dancing-in-the-street

Treatments

When mental health professionals don’t take insurance, only the wealthy can afford their help. There’s something that really bothers Stanford psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys. When he thinks of all the years he has spent training the next generation of psychiatrists, the enormous investment in medical school and residency, he wants